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What activities, demonstrations, songs, or dramatizations do you use when you teach this topic?
Nature of (solids, liquids, and gases), kinetic energy theory, gas pressure, barometer, atm, changes of states, boiling point graphs, phase diagram, heating curve


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JanelleHollingshead
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JanelleHollingshead Intro to phase changes 0 Oct 10 2009, 9:39 PM EDT by JanelleHollingshead
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To introduce students to phase changes I have them go out in the hall. First i have them line up in rows and rock back and forth to represent a solid. THen I ask them to turn into a liquid. Some students start to most faster in place but then i say no....you are not just a hot solid. then another student will start to walk around and i will say..."look at chuck...he has it" then everyone will start to walk around. then I ask them to turn into a gas and they will walk fast. then I say things like now melt....then condense, evaporation...show me sublimation....it is really fun!
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